215939 - Switching between tabs loses partially typed URL

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Ed Avis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

If you enter part of a URL in the location bar, then switch to a different tab,
then switch back to the original tab, the text you typed in the location bar is
gone.

This is annoying, especially when trying to paste together a URL from two lines
of text, e.g.

    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bu
    g.cgi?product=Firebird

I would like to paste that URL (split across lines) into the location bar
belonging to a different tab, but I can't find any way to do this.  Every time I
switch to a different tab and back again, what I had previously typed in the bar
is lost.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firebird.
2. C-t to open a new tab.  The second tab is now displayed.
3. Type 'hello'.  This text appears in the location bar.
4. Click on the header for the first tab to switch to that tab.
5. Click on the header for the second tab to switch back to the second tab.

Actual Results:  
When I switched back to the second tab, the text 'hello' I had typed was gone.

Expected Results:  
The partially typed URL should have been preserved, ready for the user to type
or paste some more.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104778 ***

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Reopening, we have special firebird bug for that.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203102 ***

Comment 4

[Ed Avis]

This has regressed in the 2004-09-05 nightly build of Firefox, however it is not
quite so easy to reproduce.  It seems to depend on whether there is a port
number in the URI, for example:

http://foo:8080/

If I select that text in Firefox (eg selecting it from the text edit box while
entering this bug report), press C-t to open a new tab and paste the text into
that tab, then switch to another tab and back again, the text disappears.  I can
reproduce this every time.

(Interestingly, if the URI I enter is an initial substring of one I've looked at
recently, then when clicking to switch away to another tab I momentarily see the
URI get autocompleted and highlighted before the other tab is displayed.  It has
still disappeared by the time I switch back.)

When this bug was first filed a chain of marked-as-duplicate led from it to
#231393.  However it is not quite the same bug - this one doesn't depend on a
'bad link' - and while this bug has regressed, #231393 has not.

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

works for me with Windows Firefox branch build 2004-09-17-07-0.9